I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

I was feeling everything too much. Everything pulled at my eyes. I spent hours floating in pools.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

The only thing that everyone needs to look out for is keeping the students reading through high school and thereafter.

A funny thing happened on the way to utopia: We've turned into this surveillance society and become a race of spies, where we track our kids and we track our spouses and we track our friends. I think very soon there will be an obsolescence of trust, because it's much easier to access a person's location than it is to ask - or to trust.

Every part of my body felt electric. My chest ached and my head throbbed with the great terrible limitless possibility of the morning, and when it came, the sky was washed white, everything was new, and I hadn't slept at all.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.